Denver’s autumn heat was too much for six people who waited for hours to hear President Obama this afternoon.

As temperatures rose into the mid-80s, some people who had been waiting at Abraham Lincoln High School began to wilt. One person was rushed to Denver Health Medical Center with a heat-related illness, said a hospital spokesman.

Others merely sweated out the wait in the afternoon sunshine.

People had started arriving for tickets at early as 7 a.m. Obama spoke to a crowd of hundreds at 2:30 p.m.

The heat was nearly 10 degrees warmer than normal for the date, but about 8 degrees below the record high of 92 set on Sept. 27, 1953.

After two days in the 80s, a cool-down is on the way, according to the National Weather Service. Temperatures could reach only the upper 60s in Denver Wednesday.

The owners of Boulder’s Sterling University Peaks apartments, who this summer were cited for illegally subdividing 92 bedrooms in the complex, have reached an agreement to settle the case for $410,000, the city announced Thursday.